exorbitancy
- a variation of exorbitance.
Example Sentences
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He remarked to Dr. Maxwell, that "its violence and ill-effects were much exaggerated; for who knows any real sufferings on that head, more than from the exorbitancy of any other passion?"
From Autobiography, Letters and Literary Remains of Mrs. Piozzi (Thrale) (2nd ed.) (2 vols.) Edited with notes and Introductory Account of her life and writings by Piozzi, Hester Lynch
Not thinking of the exorbitancy even of this demand, all his rage was against the first tailor: so to him he went.
From The Jest Book The Choicest Anecdotes and Sayings by Lemon, Mark
Neither high taxes, nor the high price of dry-goods, nor the exorbitancy of labor, could excuse much that the city has witnessed in the behavior of the yeomanry.
From The Abominations of Modern Society by Talmage, T. De Witt (Thomas De Witt)
Bear not too slack reins upon pleasure, nor let complexion or contagion betray thee unto the exorbitancy of delight.
From Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 6 by Mabie, Hamilton Wright
Here could be no exorbitancy or unjust excess, nothing more than was proportional to the occasion.
From The World's Great Sermons, Volume 02 Hooker to South by Kleiser, Grenville
